| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 R54 2000 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14189 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9712709523 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Roces, Alfredo R. ,
- Dates associated with a name - 1932-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Looking for Liling :
- Remainder of title - a family history of World War II martyr Rafael R. Roces, Jr. /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Alfredo Roces
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Pasig City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Anvil Pub.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2000.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vii, 388 p., [16] p. of plates :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Biography of Rafael R. "Liling" Roces, a gifted journalist and writer, nationalist and World War II hero. Liling wrote a regular column in the Tribune, but refused to write for the paper under the Japanese. Instead, he helped found the Free Philippines underground group, which circulated anti-Japanese leaflets in Manila. Eventually, the Japanese arrested him and members of his group. He was subjected to torture in Fort Santiago and was beheaded in the Chinese Cemetery. After the war, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US government, the highest award it could bestow on a civilian. The author, Liling's brother, sought to recover his brother from anonymity and to preserve his legacy, through archival research and videotaped interviews with key persons who knew Liling. This book is a biography of a Filipino World War II martyr, and also a chronicle of the author's quest to bring his brother back to life. Much of it is told in the actual words of eyewitnesses. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Roces, Rafael R.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1912-1944.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Journalists
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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